| GLAS | Dingolfing car maker who BMW took over in 1966 (4) |
| HORCH | Surname of German car maker who created Audi (5) |
| HANSGLAS | Former German marque based in Dingolfing (4,4) |
| TODD | **** Phillips, US film maker who directed the 2019 thriller film 'Joker' (4) |
| ZHAO | Chinese film maker who directed Hamnet, Chloe _ (4) |
| LEAN | David, English film-maker who directed the epics Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago (4) |
| ENYA | Ukulele maker who has nothing to do with the Irish singer |
| ONEILL | Manager who took over in 2000 at Celtic F.C., Martin - (6) |
| TUBER | King Edward, say, initially took over in Germany (5) |
| HELDTHEFORT | Took over in a supervisor's absence |
| ASSUMED | Took over in the guise of editor, penning entirety (7) |
| UNION | Auto _ , group that Daimler-Benz took over in the late 1950s (5) |
| BOUGHTOUT | Took over, in a way |
| MELGIBSON | US actor and film-maker who starred in cult movie Mad Max in 1979 (3,6) |
| ADOLPHCOORS | American Beer maker who in 1873 founded a brewery in Golden, CO & later leaped to his death from a hotel window |
| HASBRO | Toy maker who gave "Chewbacca Mom" Candace Payne an action figure in her own likeness in 2016 |
| TIM | ___ Burton, film-maker who directed 6D in Big Fish (3) |
| WOODY | ___ Allen, film maker who directed 6D in Cassandra's Dream (5) |
| STRADIVARI | Antonio -, Italian stringed instrument maker who died in 1737 (10) |
| SHERATON | Thomas ?, furniture maker who authored The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing-Book |
